h2o

Questions about h2o

What does h2o mean?

h2o means "binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent".

How many syllables are in h2o?

h2o has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for h2o?

Close synonyms include water. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is h2o a common word?

h2o is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.